I've struggled with self-esteem issues since I was quite young. I mean, let's be honest, can any of us think of one person we know who has never thought something negative about his or herself? Well, of course not. We are inherently selfish people, so obviously we never stop thinking about ourselves. Many of us are naturally insecure, whether we'd like to admit it or not. We put on this delicately stitched together façade of self-confidence, but in actuality, when you pull the curtain back, we're pathetically broken and this just makes us focused on ourselves instead of being focused on God.
We don't need self-confidence. Self-confidence makes us self-centered instead of God-centered. Anything we have achieved in our lives we have not achieved by our own power, but by God's power.
The reality is that we are nothing without God, so there is no reason for self-confidence. We are sad beings who have fatally messed up. But God loves fatal mess-ups. He does amazing things with fatal mess-ups.
The less we are the centers of our own lives, the more God is the center, and this is when He does awesome things. We have nothing to do with the awesome things. It's all God doing them through us so that He is ultimately glorified.
I may not stand more than a mere four feet and eleven inches. I may stutter a little too much when I talk over-excitedly. But God's gonna use me for big things.
~grace&peace~
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